..Experiment 4 confirmed that the effects of massive repetition occur for a face familiarity task as well as for face identification tasks. The results are discussed in terms of the predictions of Burton's (1994) IACL model...

..Performance of theoretical lateral caricatures was extrapolated from the oblique caricature data. These lateral caricatures would be perceived as more similar to veridical faces than were the anti-caricatures...

..In Exp. 2 analysis of undergraduates' responses (9 men, 20 women, M age =19, selected by convenience) showed the decrease in the Navon effect could be prevented by alternating the Navon task with the face recognition task...

..These findings are in contrast to those reported by Boutsen and Humphreys (2003, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A 56 955-975), and reasons for these differences, along with implications, are discussed...

..It is concluded that the ORB is a consequence of a failure of attention being directed to those features of other race faces that are useful for identification...

The Thatcher illusion as a test of configural disruption

M B LewisSchool of Psychology, University of Wales College of Cardiff, UKPerception 26:225-7. 1997

..Performance was found to be slower when faces were inverted rather than upright. Presenting faces in photographic negative also hindered performance implying that this transformation also disrupts holistic facial information...